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Latbear4blk

Buenos Aires, Argentina. June/July 2021

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Palermo is a great area but I recall a nuevo part and a viejo part. Palermo nuevo looks pretty similar to Recoleta. Palermo Viejo is the part with cobblestone streets, leafy trees, and hip restaurants. And PV is divided further into sub-barrios I can't keep track of. Sounds like a great trip and I'd love to hear what it's like the time of corona.

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I hope you have a wonderful trip...how could not with a reunion with beautiful Douglas and remember give Tomy's gorgeous ass a kiss for me. :D

Now there seems to be another Tomy from Brasil? Maybe size him up too?

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Please continue your excellent reports @Latbear4blk. They bring back memories for me. 

On 6/5/2021 at 4:17 PM, davet said:

Palermo is a great area but I recall a nuevo part and a viejo part. Palermo nuevo looks pretty similar to Recoleta. Palermo Viejo is the part with cobblestone streets, leafy trees, and hip restaurants. And PV is divided further into sub-barrios I can't keep track of. 

I was last there 8 years ago, but @davet have they changed the names of the different areas of Palermo? I recall there were three: Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood being lively with plenty of shops and restaurants etc, whereas Palermo Chico was small and where the truly moneyed lived (as there were no commercial premises). At that time, a fourth area of Palermo was being developed. It I don’t recall its intended name. 

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2 hours ago, Lonnie said:

I hope you have a wonderful trip...how could not with a reunion with beautiful Douglas and remember give Tomy's gorgeous ass a kiss for me. :D

Now there seems to be another Tomy from Brasil? Maybe size him up too?

LOL. I am not 100% sure, but 90% I think he is the same Tommy. Not only USA escorts rebrand themselves now and then.

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7 minutes ago, msclelovr said:

Please continue your excellent reports @Latbear4blk. They bring back memories for me. 

I was last there 8 years ago, but @davet have they changed the names of the different areas of Palermo? I recall there were three: Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood being lively with plenty of shops and restaurants etc, whereas Palermo Chico was small and where the truly moneyed lived (as there were no commercial premises). At that time, a fourth area of Palermo was being developed. It I don’t recall its intended name. 

There has always been only two Palermos. Palermo Viejo, and Palermo Chico. As you say, the latter is a wealthy neighborhood with fancy houses where many diplomat reside, and where even many embassies are located.

Palermo Viejo was a mix of fancier areas closer to Avdas Figueroa Alcorta and Libertador, and Parque 3 de Febrero (los Bosques de Palermo) and the inside big popular middle class areas. Those areas have been redeveloped in the last decade, realtors marketed and successfully imposed Palermo Hollywood (where I am right now) and Palermo Soho to two of traditional Palermo Viejo neighborhoods.

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What a great looking neighborhood. Seeing the fallen leaves makes me think of winter and shiver...what's the temperature? The weather in general?

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5 hours ago, TotallyOz said:

Beautiful street and photos (esp. the bud). The street you grew up on is very lovely!

I lived there in the 80s and 90s. In those two decades, rather than "growing up" I was "parting Wilde".

 

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3 hours ago, Lonnie said:

What a great looking neighborhood. Seeing the fallen leaves makes me think of winter and shiver...what's the temperature? The weather in general?

In Buenos Aires ( do not forget Argentina is a long country N to S, and BA is right in the middle) the temperature is 

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(I am in Celsius with the rest of the civilized world)

The whole country is in the Fall.

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.. am.enjoying reading and viewing all of your previous posts and am glad that you're beginning to have a wonderful stay and are viewing it through a different lens.  Perhaps things look remarkably different because of the shut down and closure and the few individuals who are out and about.  ...same has happened to me while I've been in San Francisco, especially during the early pandemic days as well as in parts of the area on the coast where I live in Cali.

I have visited Buenos Aires 4 or 5 times during this century, and each time I've stayed in Recoleta, one of the upscale barrios in the city.  The apartments that I rented from a gay company were always timely furnished, quiet, and mighty welcoming.  My friend and I stayed in a penthouse apartment in one of the Palermos during our last visit.  It was elegant, and the price quite wonderful.

While I read what you wrote, I reminisced, smiled, and felt sad in thinking about the past vs now, and I identified with you when you wrote that you'd not seen your motherin two years.  ...the same here which I broke for five days last month.  I visited my mother and sister and brother and brother-in-law in Kansas City, MO to surprise and honor my mother on her 101st birthday.  She's alert and upbeat but is homebound because of her health.  i became emotional as I left for California.

Do enjoy yourself and post when you can.  I've always enjoyed viewing and reading and vicariously living through what you've written.

Gracias, Axiom

 

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3 hours ago, msclelovr said:

@Latbear4blk I wonder if the astonishing remarks by the Argentine President have been widely reported in Argentina? He referred to Brazilians as being “from the jungle”!

Alberto Fernández: Argentine president apologises for Brazil comments https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-57422758

Yes, it is a huge scandal and they do not know how to put out the fire. Personally, I am disappointed. I had always casted Fernandez on the other side of Argentine History.

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